About The AuthorMarlene Chabot, a member of the Brainerd
Writers Alliance, moved from the Twin Cities to the Central Lakes
area in 2001. She grew up on the North East side of Minneapolis
but attended high school and two years of college in Sylvania,
Ohio. She completed her elementary degree in 1970 at St. Cloud
State University. After finishing college she married and moved
away, spending three years in Maryland and three in Des Moines,
Iowa, before returning to Minnesota to raise their family. In 1987,
Marlene earned an A.A.S. degree in Business Marketing/Office
Management from Anoka Ramsey Community College and a
diploma in 2000 from the Institute of Children's Literature. She
published her first Private Eye novel, China Connection, in 2003,
and is currently working on her second.
Now Available! - - - North Dakota Neighbor - a Matt Malone Mystery
Private Investigator Matt Malone is on the prowl again. This time
he is looking for Brad Harper, a missing husband who left his wife
and kids with nothing but tons of debt.Unfortunately, the hunt for
Harper is put on hold when Margaret Grimshaw, an elderly
neighbor, drags the investigator into another case. Skeletal
remains are uncovered on land that Evan Cox, a philanthropist
and friend of Margaret's, recently donated to the Anoka -
Hennepin School District. A new middle school may never get
built unless Malone can prove the property wasn't used as an
Indian burial site. Discussions with Dr. Ted Raines, head of the
University of Minnesota Anthropology Department, and Dr.
Russell, an Anoka County Coroner, don't reveal much. Relying on
instinct, Malone embarks on a journey to Bismarck, North
Dakota, to seek a professor of Indian culture who may be able to
unravel the mystery. Getting more than he bargained for, Malone
comes to terms with a Native American Indian belief, life is a
circle. It is woven together by thin threads and all things being
connected. Now, he must return to Minnesota, the place where
both his cases began, to finish one unbelievable circle of life.
Don't Miss My First Book!
China Connection involves a new virus and
was published just a couple weeks before
the SARS epidemic. And now in 2006, the
world is concerned about the Bird Flu.
Excerpt from Chapter 1:
Matt Malone's my name and Private
Investigation is my game... Irish blood
courses through my veins, but I've never
had a hankering for whiskey nor the desire
to attend a full-fledged Irish wake.
Excerpt from Chapter 23:
This morning started out awful. I rolled out
of bed with a severe headache and a bad
case of the sniffles. Then to make matters
worse, Mr. Welch called before I could
even drink my first cup of coffee.
"You're not going to believe what I have to
tell you," he said in an emotionally charged
voice. "It happened again! I can't believe it!
It's, it's bizarre!"
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